Dr. Antje Gunsenheimer
Discipline
Ancient American Studies
Regional focus
Mesoamerica, North America, Ancient America
Research focus
Mesoamerica:
- Indigenous life conditions during the colonial era
- Cultural strategies of appropriation and resistance of indigenous societies on the example of their literary producing in colonial era (Central Mexico and Yukatan)
- Methodical excess to the study of anonymous ethnohistorical documents (Aztec and Yukatec language area)
- National and subaltern history discourses in 19th and 20th century Mexico
- Collective memory and processes of identity formation
North America:
- South West (Archeology)
- The Iroquois (Ethnohistory)
Ancient America:
- Development of complex societes in Ancient America